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[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
so are all the openkirin ROMs dead? also, is anyone working on twrp for this device? the treble GSIs are really tempting.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
Bottom line is if you´re looking for a long time support, don´t buy Huawei/Honor.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Wattsensi:
We already have the Treble interface, making the work much, much, much more trivial.

Android Q will probably be possible on our EMUI 8 devices.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
New release available for EMUI 9 devices. Hope next release will be an updated ROM for EMUI 8...

Thanks, developers.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
lol, yeah. huawei sucks even more than before when it comes to custom ROMs. thankfully i didnt buy this device. it was given to me and even then i feel like i over paid! sadly it seems more OEMs are getting rid of bootloader unlocking which really sucks! also, both google and 1+ really hate expandable storage so **** those devices. im running out of good OEMs. hopefully somewhere in the EU someone advocates for bootloader unlocking under the right to repair.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
I wouldn't bet on it.

1+ 3 and more recent models still have independent development and support.

Same thing for some Sony.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] LightofMagic:
Hi there,

yes I definitly agree, that support on Huawei or Honor is poor. But since I am looking for upgrading an Honor 8 EMUI 8, I wounder when the next Pie image will turn up? Any hints?

Thanks to everyone here supporting this or my other decives
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Moribus:
Which one of these 3 roms, have best cam quality?

Do they use both cameras or not?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Wattsensi:
You say that like having a separate vendor interface is not that a big deal. It is. We can use the EMUI 8 drivers with any ROM that can load them.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
That's not what I said.

You're right, separate vendor interface is great. But being able to develop and wanting to develop are different things. I wouldn't bet on the will to develop.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] czolo7:
Did you get your H7X back already? Any chances for working NFC?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] OldDroid:
Almost.. I have to setup windoof 7 to use IDT properly to reflash board software, but i already got the 7X to boot the sec fastboot images ;)

Regards
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] czolo7:
Great. So we are waiting for more new news about rom ;)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] dean15:
Hi!

I've found that both wpa_cli & wpa_cli_hisi write AP configs to wpa_supplicant.conf instead of WifiConfigStore.xml

Checked on OmniROM Beta 3.1 & Resurrection Remix OS Beta 3. Can it be fixed in some way?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Theoutbackdream:
Does anyone know how to go from OpenKirin to EMUI? I can't use eRecovery, as I used a version of EMUI8.0 for a different phone to get my FRDL04(prior to it being officially released) to be able to use OpenKirin.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
You can flash it with Hurupdater on twrp if you can't use eRecovery (it still be the best method)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Theoutbackdream:
eRecovery is something I wanted to do, but since the stock rom isn't technically for FRDL04, wouldn't I have issues if I proceeded with the eRecovery? Or would it be fine?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
When download read what it is download (it will tell you what it's downloading)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] leekzyy:
Hello,

I would like to know if it is possible to remove gapps from your builds (OmniROM Pie Alpha 5.2 atm) ?

Because i want to install microg with this build.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
You have to build yourself without gapps from Openkirin github
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] pix106:
Unfortunately they do closed source since treble...
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] leekzyy:
Oh no .. I tried to search a script or something to remove gapps but all I found was outdated.

So there is nothing to do for remove gapps into their build?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
Unfortunately you can only speak with [MENTION=4960686]OldDroid[/MENTION] and other members for something
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] peti439:
Everything working on FRD-L09? I don't using the Honor, because doing weird things and i don't like it. The weird things is on performance mod, the screen brightnes goes down and the performance too. Android 8 with EMUI 8 ( Using HTC One M8 and iPhone Xs )
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] peti439:
I installed it, but i have a few question. How can i root? Can i install viper4android?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
You can flash the kernel provided by [MENTION=724920]hacks[/MENTION]lah or take the kernel IMG and patch it via magisk manager.

After install magisk you can install the version specifically made for magisk
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] aariss:
Hi

How to rebrand L09-C636 to L09-C432 ?

Tried with 'SRKToolHuawei-Lod-Chong-V2.0-20161002' butfailed

Thx
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
has anyone tried LineageOS Beta 5? is it pie? is it stable? im sick and tired of omni. if it weren't for the lack of a fingerprint reader and expandable storage i would switch back to my nexus 5.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
It's Oreo
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
ugh...... thanks for the help friend. i was gonna try and flash some treble gsi's and it seems that huawei is **** when it comes to gsi compatibility. i got this phone for free and i still feel like i over paid! screw huawei!
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
99% of people would disagree with you by saying "it's shiny, takes nice photos and it was a good deal". But then, they aren't here at XDA.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
Well, it was a good phone before Huawei close the unlock page... The worst thing is the "open source" program made by Huawei (I'm obviously ironic)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] pix106:
And the "open" kirin
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] sic0048:
FYI - viper4android doesn't work on the Honor 8 running EMUI 8.x due to a driver issue.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
while i strongly feel that huawei is hot garbage its important to note that the openkirin team is truly a great group. they make these devices partly customizable. no matter how good emui gets it will always be hot garbage! it doesnt compare to custom ROMs. now since they have decided to not allow bootloader unlocking it really doesnt matter to me that they are banned in the US.

huawei could have easily dominated in the US if they had used snapdragon SOCs here instead of their kirin SOCs. sadly theyre just like lg now, another **** OEM. the latest LG phones arent bad but since its impossible to unlock the bootloader theyre not worth buying.

im just waiting to see the new asus flagship. i hope its metal like the 5z. i hate the all glass trend.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] czolo7:
Any progress there? :)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] pix106:
I was only mentioning the use of the word "open" that actually means "closed" in their use of it.

They do good work but closed source, they should be called "kirin team" or anything that does not use a word with it's exact opposite meaning.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
no, i understood your meaning. you have to understand that this small group is responsible for maintaining a large amount of devices. they pour time and effort into their work and as such have the right to either disclose or not disclose as much of the work they do. i do agree with you somewhat tho but like i said, this device was free so it didnt cost me anything. i already bought one huawei device and that was enough for me. although, if they do ever use snapdragon SOCs for their flagships in the US i would probably buy one.

the odds of that happening are zero but unless they do that they will never gain any ground in the US. they should have sold more honor devices with SD chips. oh well!
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] OldDroid:
Actually yes, i restored it to a fully working state, kept all IMEIs, SN, etc.. Straight fixed magisk for hi6250 devices.

Regards
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
If you need an hand on open Kirin group I've some acknowledge about compiling ROM and I'd want to help. My only problem is that I have only 100Gb on my SIM connection, no WiFi at my home
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] SirDarknight:
Hi guys!

Are the ROMs still incompatible with the Chinese variants? Mine is Honor 8 FRD-AL10. Last time I checked (6 months ago), SIM 1 does not work and a lot of other small issues.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
Any progress here? I see the download page still has the LineageOS Beta 5 Released August 11, 2018.

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Yeah, I have found this strikingly ironic also.

TBH, I really have no idea why they do this. What benefit is it to keep it closed source? If they worked in the open, they might attract more contributors (many hands make light work) and/or people would be able to build updated ROMs without having to wait for periodic manual builds from "the team".
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] evilpaul13:
Aren't they using GPL'd code?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
I don't know if device configs are GPL licensed or not. I doubt it.

But honestly, dragging somebody kicking and screaming to open source development through license requirements is not really ideal. Probably about as far away from ideal as you can get in fact.

What is more ideal is for somebody to recognise and acknowledge the huge benefit that another party has bestowed upon them by that party opening their software development to them and as such acting in kind and doing their own development in the open to extend the benefits they received onto others.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] katobo45:
I noticed some strange battery drain. After 6-7 hours of sleep ( I don`t touch phone) and only BT turned on, honor eats about 20% of battery. It`s strange so I installed some app to measure cpu usage and to see how fast it works in deep sleep. Theres some spikes like from 800 mhz to 1.8 mhz on 4 support cores, but main cores stay stable all time. Should I worry?xD
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
Actually my favourite, albeit is was never recommended, is the LeanageOS-Version. On other versions i had problems with adaptive brightness or the equalizer, but on LOS everything just works fine. Give it a try!
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] katobo45:
I will try it [MENTION=7462869]Nex23[/MENTION] ,thanks for tip! Also i got Note 3 and battery life feel the same but it`s about 6 and half year old :D
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] evilpaul13:
Is OmniROM Pie Alpha 5.2 from February the latest build that works for us? I'm kind of a huge noob when it comes to custom ROMs. Do OTA security updates work? I'd kind of like to be more up to date security-wise than October 1st.

Are 4G GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, the fingerprint sensor, and fingerprint sensor gestures working?

How is battery life compared to EMUI?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ThePS4Gamer:
Yes, this is the last build for EMUI 8 vendor. This is the precursor of the EMUI 9 only Beta builds, so the OTA update system is broken in this build. All the above features work in this build, this is a stable, fluid experience.

But the battery life... Oh the f*cking battery life! It's a f*cking trainwreck! If you don't turn on Battery Saver mode, the OS drains the battery so fast that your phone can run out of power in just a matter of 2-3 hours of lightweight (!!!) usage.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
everything works fine on omni. the ROM itself is a bit meh but stuff works. the battery life varies from person to person but i dont get the same usage as i did with oreo ROMs. i think im done waiting for an update to these ROMs. im going to switch to a treble GSI. im aware that those have no camera functionality but i dont care.

if i brick this phone i guess ill just use my dying nexus 5 until i can get a zenfone 6. i wish oneplus had expandable storage.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] FSBRUSSIA:
Goodluck.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
Yes, this is very frustrating. The OK devs don't want to share their work (device configs, etc.) even though they were only able to build ROMs because others that came before them shared their work, and yet they fail to keep (all of[1]) their ROMs up-to-date.

Do you know of any working (even if without camera) GSIs out there for Huawei phones?

But yeah, after this phone, I think I am going to be done with Huawei -- which is a pity, because I think the hardware is a great value. But the first straw was taking away the boot-loader unlock program and the final straw is this [not-so-]open-kirin project.

[1] If there are ROMs they are no longer interested in maintaining, releasing the device configs so that other interested people can take over maintainership is the right way to retire those, IMHO, rather than just letting them languish and die.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] kdanina:
Descendant seems to work fine but camera doesn't . Haven't tried it long enough yet. So don't know what else is broken. Oh yeah there's also an error about flashing vendor everytime after booting up but I just dismissed it.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
sadly, it seems that Descendant is the most compatible ROM for huawei devices. the camera issue is the biggest problem but it seems that most ROMs work well enough. my issue is that there is no TWRP for the H8. this makes it very hard to test ROMs because one cant make a backup image before testing other ROMs.

i realize how much i took for granted my nexus 5. so many possibilities and customization. just last week i upgraded my brothers 1+5 to AOSP extended along with a twrp upgraded and was totally blown away by the custom black themed TWRP. its a little thing but it really impressed me.

im gonna hopefully try and see if i can run extended on this thing over the weekend. ill report back with whatever happens. btw, for anyone who wants a great and cheap alternative should get a 1+5t. theyre pretty cheap now and have a huge community. it lacks expandable storage but its still an amazing phone.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
I wonder why this is. Is camera hardware not included in the ABI that the Treble vendor implementation is supposed to conform to? Or did Huawei just decide that they didn't need to comply with that part of Treble?

Do any/all other Treble phones have camera problems with GSIs?

Amen. A phone without TWRP is useless as a device for going beyond the vendor's ROM and support. Ditto for a phone without a truly open ROM development community. OK is not open despite the use of the word in their name.

Agree on your points about the Nexus 5 and 1+*, etc. No more Huawei devices for me. I wouldn't have bought one in the first place if I had realised that only shortly prior to my purchase that Huawei discontinued their bootloader unlock program.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
I would add Xiaomi and Asus (Zenphone 6?) to 1+. With open bootloader, good and affordable hardware, developers grow in numbers.

Too bad OK team went down this path.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
There seems to be some complications/requirements to selling Xiaomi phones. I got my mom one from the local computer store and shortly afterward they didn't sell them any more because they were "not allowed to". They wouldn't expand on that.

Is there any custom ROM community around the Asus Zenphone 6? I'm not finding much.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
Asus Z6 is just too recent. Many people are still waiting for the device.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
Yeah, my feeling also. So not really even on-topic as a suggestion for an alternative to Huawei phones for custom ROMs (yet), IMHO.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Giuskiller:
I juat wish to know by OK team if EMUI 8 build will be updated in future because as far as i can see they're only updating EMUI 9 builds.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
And this is the problem with closed-source development, which is what OK is, despite the word "open" in the name.

As soon as somebody loses interest, all of the development is lost, rather than left out in the open for somebody else who might have a renewed interest in to pick up.

I'm still waiting for a LineageOS build newer than Aug. 2018, which is older than the last EMUI 8 build that I got.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
Apparently you cannot ask such question in telegram group without getting a warning (3 warnings equals being banned).

And it seems no one from OK thinks coming to XDA to clarify such question is worth their time.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] dialog701:
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[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
There are a lot of things you cannot ask/discuss without getting banned (forever it seems). It seems they are not terribly open about conversation/discussion either.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
i agree with everyone about the closed sources being total bull**** but these people are the ones putting in the work so its really up to them. i would prefer to donate to the development of a fully functional TWRP for this device and maybe other kirin devices (man im so glad huawei is dying). the treble section of xda has many devs that help each other creating stable GSIs that work on many devices. instead of wasting time it would be of great benefit for those that have no other choice or are stuck with huawei.

i strongly recommend that everyone switch if they can. 1+5ts are really cheap now and have a HUGE community on xda. i was unable to test any of the provided GSIs this weekend but plan on trying sometime this week. i have gone through most of the threads and it seems that the AOSP, Pixel Experience and Descendant ROMs seem to have the best compatibility.

if anyone knows how to flash gapps without TWRP preferably from fastboot i would greatly appreciate it.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Shred00:
You mean putting in the last bit of work to make their Android releases work on Huawei phones. They are not maintaining AOSP, nor are they maintaining the various forks they make releases from which are orders of magnitude on orders of magnitude more lines of code and work than their own Huawei-only releases.

IMHO, they should "pay back" for being able to make their own ROMs out of all of that source that is made available to them by open sourcing their own work.

Open source only works if people give back and participate in the community. If everyone takes and doesn't give back then it falls apart.

From a licensing perspective, it might very well be. From a health-of-the-community-and-ecosystem perspective, it's just not a fair thing to do, IMHO. You got all of this source code and can't give back your own contributions? Sounds pretty selfish.

Well, my next phone WILL NOT be a Huawei. The politics of Huawei and what future O/S might be on their phones aside, they are just not consumer-friendly.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] evilpaul13:
I don't think Huawei particularly wants people developing custom ROMs. They ended bootloader unlocks which kind of makes that hard and what source code they have released has been I've seen described as being pretty hard to work with.

I'm looking for a replacement phone. I'm in the US, so...pretty much all of the new ~$350 phones available would either be a hardware downgrade (with newer software, sometimes, at least). Xiaomi, Oppo, the non-Pro OP7, and a bunch of others all have phones that looked great, but they lack the right LTE bands, so even if I imported one, it would kind of be trash here on T-Mobile.

Is it fair to say that a phone with a SD835 or better will be as fast or faster than the Honor 8?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
And the Xiami Mi A2 family? Have you watched them? For about 150€ (here in Italy) I think it could be a good replacement
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] thewhitewolf89:
How to download this rom for honor 8 FRD-L09 ?

İ cant see any download link!!
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ScardracS:
openkirin.net/download (emui8 version)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] thewhitewolf89:
Thnx:good:
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
Can´t remember if EMUI 8 is also required for OmniROM Beta 3.1 (Android 7)... I'm sure it´s required for Pie ROMs.

Anyone?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] droidbot1337:
so i spent the weekend trying most of the GSIs on the treble forum. only about 3 managed to work but none were good as daily drivers due to either bugs or no way of flashing gapps without twrp. so now im back to openkirin but refuse to use omni so i have settled on openkirin_rros_beta3. im just going to use this ROM until i switch devices.

this has honestly been the worst experience for me using a phone. i hope the ban on huawei in the US continues so their **** devices dont sell here. btw, the GSIs that worked for me were LOS16, descendant and havoc. theres a camera port for kirin devices that is said to work like magic but without twrp i was unable to test. good luck to anyone that wants to try!

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well.... so it seems that RROS is crap on battery! i dont know what to do but go back to omni...... FML!! btw, does anyone know why its impossible to replace the boot animation and system sounds on these ROMs?? i cant modify any openkirin sounds or boot animations.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] :
For bootanimation.zip you must go to system/media folder on openkirin rom. And on emui it is in product/etc/media folder.

Audio files are in system/media on both roms.

For replace the folder you need a root manager like mixplorer. (https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1523691)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] thuryn:
EMUI 8-based Builds: OmniROM Pie Alpha 5.2 on Honor 8

Thank you for the build - it works really well, better than original stock ROM (background processes are not killed etc.). The only app that does not work is the TV beam (infra control for TV) - but it's really a small problem.