[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elvin3d:
**WARNING!! DO EVERYTHING @ YOUR OWN RISK!!NO ONE IS TO BE BLAMED EXCEPT YOU!!**

**ALSO I DID HAVE :D HELP(INDIRECTLY) FROM OTHER XDA MEMBERS

I owned a Honor 8 FRD-L09C185 version which supports dual sim but no volte. I'm from India and I use Jio SIM as my daily driver. For the sake of all other Non-Indians, Jio sim only support volte and the phones without volte uses an app called 'JIO4G VOICE'. The app often closes in the back ground & requires always ON data and its buggy. Hence I didn't receive messages or calls most of the time. Recently I heard about Honor 8 in India receiving volte support. Later on I learned that the Indian version of Honor is FRD-L02C675 and supports only single sim with volte support.

There were numerous threads for RETURNING TO STOCK ROM, ROLLING BACK TO EMUI4.1, REBRANDING CHINESE PHONES TO FRD-L09/FRD-L04. I wasted around a week trying to figure out a way to Rebrand my FRD-L09 to FRD-L02. Below are the links to the few xda threads which I had tried and failed.

1. https://xdaforums.com/honor-8/how-to/guide-flashing-unapproved-firmwares-t3668306

2. https://xdaforums.com/honor-8/help/debrand-frd-al00-to-frd-l09-update-to-t3552445

After a lot of extensive searching in google and xda, I came across this xda thread from gopinaidu77. Here is the link : https://xdaforums.com/honor-8/how-to/guide-honor-8-t3612873

Now I know most of your complaining about this being a duplicate post, but if you have read his post he warns of loosing dual sim feature if Rebranded to FRD-L02. I did everything as he said on the post and successfully. I checked 'About Phone' from Settings and found it as FRD-L02c675 and also found 'Volte' in Connections . Also I noticed no dual sim support like he said in the aforementioned post.

Now for some reason I rooted my phone, I think I rooted to install Dolby Surround feature or Viper4Android. Later I couldn't download many apps from playstore and couldn't use Samsung Pay on Gear S3(US version obviously, thank God) since my device wasn't verified. So I Unrooted my phone, wiped data/cache, the usual procedure.

When the device turned on my device was back to normal, but then later I found out that I have support for dual sim support as well as Volte. I don't know how this happened but anyone else is welcome to try. Will post screenshots later, since I don't have any micro sims lying around.

TIPS BEFORE REBRANDING (TRUST ME I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING THAT COULD GO WRONG):

1. Backup everything to your PC/sdcard (via TWRP only)

2.Be patient, the whole process takes a lot of time and anything can go wrong and you may have to do it again.

3. Keep another phone as backup till you have completed the procedure.

4. I don't about other devices, but Honor 8 is totally unbrickable

a. I forgot to flash system file once and got func() error code; like said in other threads, drain your phone's battery

completely. Then enter fastboot mode (vol down+power), it works(tried twice).

b. Huawei Multi Tool is so useful and can be used easily to unbrick the device.

5. Know the procedure well and do it in order. Don't be careless!

6. Rebranding works only in EMUI4.1 , if you try in in EMUI5 you will brick your device. So rollback!

7. Finally thank the fellow xda members who have helped you.

Rebranding Procedure - Follow the Guide by gopinaidu77

Link once again : https://xdaforums.com/honor-8/how-to/guide-honor-8-t3612873

The procedure worked and as for the support for Dual SIM & Volte, someone try what I did & share what happened so that other can benefit.

Also the firmware for FRD-L02 shared by gopinaidu77 and also available from honor website was found to be corrupted. I found a link to firmwares from another xda member, link : https://mega.nz/#F!hTRlyQpJ!PhjE6p3XJ0PeSSVXgXVLDA

Thanks for reading the post(If you have read it)