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[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sille:
Ok, and now go. Nobody is interested.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jhs39:
You do realize that people on XDA have been installing custom ROMs on their Android phones for years and that there was always the potential for those ROMs to contain malware or spyware if they were the work of developers with malicious intentions? For that matter the custom kernels that people have also been flashing for as long as XDA has been around always had the potential to contain malware or spyware? And that unlocking the bootloader and rooting a phone always made it less secure?

XDA seems like a very odd place for you to be making this paranoid rant after so many years and how exactly is anything you warn of unique to the M20P or Huawei?

Do you read a lot of Trump tweats by any chance?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jc8bit:
I've tested on two computers, un the first one the problem was the antivirus and a very high disk usage. HiSuite crash

The second one have SSD disk and the AV were disabled... HiSuite do the job with no problems..

Check resource monitor and see by yourself the issue. FW returned the wasted credit on the first attemp.

By the way, Merry XMas.

JC

---------- Post added at 03:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:48 PM ----------

Hahaha :laugh: a typical and paranoid Trump's lover "gringo"
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Now that Magisk supports EMUI 9, has anyone tried rooting?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] pvillasuso:
I can try , but I need the steps to install a recovery to flash the root files

Any tips or ideas ?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
You don't flash recovery, you flash the rooted partition directly. I think there were some instructions on the Magisk page noting the method.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] pvillasuso:
This ?

Via Magisk Manager:

This method does not need root, and also does not require a custom recovery.

However, you MUST have a stock boot image dump beforehand, and you also have to be able to flash the patched boot image, either through fastboot/download mode or ODIN

Install the latest Magisk Manager

If you're planning to flash the patched boot image through ODIN, go to Settings > Update Settings > Patched Boot Output Format, and select .img.tar. For normal users leave it as the default .img

Press Install > Install > Patch Boot Image File, and select your stock boot image file

Magisk Manager will now patch your boot image, and store it in [Internal Storage]/Download/patched_boot.img[.tar]

Copy the patched boot image to your PC. If you can't find it via MTP, you can pull the file with ADB:

adb pull /sdcard/Download/patched_boot.img[.tar]

Flash the patched boot image to your device and reboot. Here is the command if using fastboot:

fastboot flash boot /path/to/patched_boot.img
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Exactly.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] pvillasuso:
but ...

There is always the need for a twrp , to extract the stock boot image dump ?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] loizos250:
so... custom roms are coming :good::good::good:
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] lynxblaine:
Anyone who can provide me with their IMEI in a private message I think I can get a copy of the download files from the FunkyHuawei method. If you need any extra proof as to what I am currently doing I will provide over private message.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sille:
Can u provide the recovery ramdisk of your 171 firmware
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] silverwings2008:
Probably best to go into a shop and photo the IMEI of one of the phones on display in the shop (*#06#) Unless anyone else can help out with a photo they have already taken?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] pvillasuso:
PM Sent !
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] auras76:
i get this error

FHHiSuiteInstaller

ERROR: Could not modify hosts file.

hisuite not detect device on fastboot
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jhs39:
Install the specific version of HiSuite via the download link then close HiSuite. Also make sure it still isn't running in your system tray. Then run the separate computer prep program in administrator mode-otherwise it won't be able to modify the necessary files. Then open HiSuite and it should work.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] auras76:
I have done now.thanks

Now wait for unlock code and then time for some development.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Xalies:
Oh finally ... just said goodbye to .126 and would still be waiting for my carrier to update to .146 mid next month. now unbranded, running latest .171 all is well
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] pafc66:
Are you able to use Google pay still?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Xalies:
No. Unfortunately I just found that ?

Magisk should help hopefully
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] pafc66:
If i root than return it to factory condition unrooted will Huawei trigger something to say it's been rooted before like Knox on Samsung?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Xalies:
Seems like it yes. I checked and I still get a Google Pay error saying that my phone is rooted or modified. I am wondering what an OTA will do
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
They'll know your bootloader was unlocked based on it saying bootloader relocked instead of locked.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] zhuanyi:
I remember reading somewhere that if you recover using eRecovery rather than just flashing, it will lock the bootloader again and it will show locked rather than relocked, but I am not 100% sure though
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
eRecovery won't do that. HiSuite method might, I'm not sure.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] moonitta:
Pleaaase,

If you have unlocked bootloader, provide us with a backup for proinfo partition using SP flash tool along with your boooader unlock code!

Now this is the only way to unlock the bootloader for this phone!

you will save alot of people from changing their phone just to get root!

pleaaase help
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] connectix:
You are asking them to deliberately destroy their (FH) business model ??? Just check with the rivals for a cheaper solution...
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] moonitta:
?

What do you mean by that ?

I saw a lot of people doing that by restoring someone's backup on YouTube tutorials but sadly it's for different models.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Perhaps you're referring to the oeminfo partition. Don't think these phones have a proinfo partition.

If you restore someone else's oeminfo partition, your phone will not work. Updates will not install, firmware will not install, the regional branding will be non-existent. It's because of new oeminfo encryption making the oeminfo partition valid only for the device it's bundled with. You'll end up destroying your phone, and there may be no way to recover.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] hammody:
guys I received an OTA .171 update! and I'm happy to confirm that the unlock bootloader in not greyed out. :D so you might may don't need to buy it from FH after all if you are willing to wait, as your update might be around the corner

my phone is LYA-L29 and I bought it from Saudi Arabia
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jc8bit:
FH tweets about a new update. Anyone knows if we need to pay again???
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] zhuanyi:
you can always wait for your carrier to push out the OTA update? I don't think updating using FH method will block you from receiving official OTA update from your carrier (obviously you have to wait till your carrier pushes out the higher version numbers than .171, which could take a while).
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] mrbeem:
No that is some awesome news :)
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Biggenz:
$55 to unlock the bootloader? No thanks.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Minotaur:
How much did you pay for the phone? Does $55 to unlock seem expensive compared to that?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] restevezes:
compared to $0 as other manufacturers do for something that simple which requires zero effort and capping artificially the possibilities of a device
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jadaress1:
Just thought this was a silly (being nice) comment to make.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Maddinuser:
So now that root and unlocking the BL are working we just need Lineage OS and a working Huawei camera port to make this great hardware finally future proof.

In the P20 pro forum they are already making progress!
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] speedyjay:
I do honestly think that $55 or any sum of money to unlock something that belongs to me anyway is a little extreme. Technically, Funky Huawei are in possession of something that belongs to me because it's unique to my device - so having to pay for it is a bit ridiculous. That's just my opinion.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] zhuanyi:
your bank charges you a service fee even though they are keeping YOUR money for you...

basically you pay for the service/information, it is something that guys like us don't have access to.

as for whether it is 55 USD or 30 Euro, it is really up to the market, I am sure even at this price level, there is still enough number of people who are willing to pay to make their business sustainable, if one day everyone is only willing to pay 2 bucks for it, then I am sure they'd be charging 2 bucks in no time.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sudeki300:
I have just got a mate 20 pro on EE contract and so far just turned it on, as it is a LAY -L09 to which I understand I can use the global firmware to unlock the bootloader, has anyone on a EE contract done this and if so are there any issues that have come to light as I saw someone saying in another thread they are now have calls taking a while to connect. Thanks I advance for any replies.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] cygnus56:
I have a question, my device is from the TELCEL operator of Mexico, so I made the FH process pay a credit and install the .171 firmware, then I understand that the region is simulated to be able to install it, since if I try to update and restore the firmware through recovery I get a .169 update that is in which my operator goes, yes, I get a .169 even though I have installed the .171, then I would like to know if the last update .182 came to me through OTA or would have to pay back a credit to FH.

I have tried updating the firmware through the HiSuite version provided by FH but it tells me that the .171 is the latest version available.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] speedyjay:
My bank charges me nothing for holding my money for me. In fact, they give me money in the form of interest.

The service? Of giving me something that belongs to me anyway?

I don't know about the law where ever you're from but as we're still in the EU, upon purchasing something from a retailer, any and all relevant information to do with the device being purchased becomes the property of the buyer. The bootloader unlock code is therefore mine is it not? It cannot be used by anyone else because it's unique to my device.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] zhuanyi:
OK, may be your bank doesn't have service fees, good for you. How about locksmith who opens your lock for you? How about plumbers? How about people you hire to cut YOUR grass? How about your telecom companies who are charging for data that only YOU can use (and is unique to your device/SIM card)?

Remember the unlock code may be unique to your device, but the process/effort to generate/obtain that code is not, it is someone else spending THEIR time doing that work for you.

I do work for others to earn my paycheck, and in turn, if someone help me with something, they deserve to get paid too. I would be pissed if I spend my time to help others and not getting paid (of course, unless it is explicitly voluntary, however I would have to agree to not getting paid to provide the service prior to providing the service, like posting on XDA for example :)), and in turn, I would pay for others who I agree to pay to help me. Of course, if you don't agree, you can always choose not to use their service and wait for someone to offer free unlock code one day. Or better still, get a Google phone which is already BL unlocked.

Of course, at the end of the day you are free to believe what you believe, if you believe others should be providing you a service for free because they are performing a service on YOUR device...well, you'll learn the lesson the hard way in the real world.

Again, I make nothing defending the people who charges for the BL unlock code, however the alternative to that is no one gets the BL unlock code and we all stuck with whatever our carriers gives us, which, in my case, is a lot worse than 30 Euro + 18 USD I paid...
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] speedyjay:
Okay pal, I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. You believe what you want, I'll voice my opinion. No harm done.

I just dont see how their can be "work" involved with obtaining a code that belongs to me and IS already generated.

Have a good day :)
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] zhuanyi:
Nice day to you as well.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jc8bit:
Hi,

Yes my friend, you need to enter FH web site, select the new firmware, then pay to be able to update.

That's my understanding.

Regards.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] cygnus56:
In truth I never get an OTA? If I do not pay all the time will I keep the .171?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jc8bit:
That's right. If Telcel releases another OTA upper that 171, you will receive that one.

OTA is region/vendor based.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] cygnus56:
The problem is that Telcel's firmware is littered with garbage, to the extent that they put their own animation when starting the device, and that's annoying.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jc8bit:
Yes, customized firmware sucks, we must choose to live with that or pay when a new FH firmware fulfill our needs.

Let's check the 182 firmware changelog.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] kischde:
Hey guys,

how about the LYA-LGRP2-OVS 9.0.0.182 firmware - which languages are included in it? I´d want to have German especially. Does that version come without customizations?

Atm I´m on C432, so it´s .153. Tomorrow my new M20 Pro will arrive, I guess it´ll also have/get .153 and C432. As I want to get rid of all those ads and apps I don´t wanna have in my ROM and wanna include some ringtones in /system, I´d like to root it now )ok, will wait a few days, if I will be afflicted again by the green screen... If it hopefully turns out as not been affected, root is absolutely necessary for me :)

So - best way to do so is unlock BL, flash .171 or .182 and root it then.

Has anyone tested already if we keep getting updates or - better than that - if we can flash on ourselves via adapted TWRP?

CHeers mates!
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
It is a non-customized firmware and German language is supported.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jhs39:
If root is essential to you why would you purchase this phone in the first place? There is no official root method for this device (although someone in one of the threads does claim that he was able to root and install TWRP). There will never be an official build of TWRP for this phone either.

Why not buy a phone that fits your specific needs in the first place instead of one that clearly doesn't?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] kischde:
[MENTION=6990243]jhs39[/MENTION]

I absolutely agree with you - and had exactly the same thoughts when deciding with which phone I should go for the next 1-2 years. There were P20, OP 6T and 1 or two others I thought about. The longer I read around those devices, the more I was pushed towards the M20 Pro.. even if there wasn´t a solution to get it rooted already. It´s the first phone (I started with Android 2.x with Moto´s Milestone in.. 2007 or 2008?) I ever bought before been sure I would be able to root it.

When I´m reviewing all the devices I had, there wasn´t a single one which hasn´t been rooted sooner or later. Our devs are just great guys and made it for any device I had (Moto Milestone, Galaxy S2, S3, S4, Xperia Z1, LG G4, Huawei P9, Honor V10, and some others I forgot to mention..) and so I trusted in them again.

So I´m just glad they found a way to get root again - as it´s possible now, I want to get root access, too. Meanwhile I found RomAur´s thread with his ROM and already downloaded it. Need to get deeper into things and prepare my computer and myself before acting.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jhs39:
Good luck. I don't see much development ever happening for this phone. A lot of people on XDA seem to be buying the M20P and then complaining that they can't unlock the bootloader or do whatever else they choose to the phone even though they should have known that before buying it.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] speedyjay:
Always someone who has to add negativity to the mix....
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] ubersapian:
So let's say I want to do crazy thing and relock my phone but usual fastboot relock command just returns some kind of root is risk error and relock fails.. I've replaced my recover ramdisk boot image back to stock but still won't relock?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] souljasteve84:
Unfortunately the only way to relock it is to do a factory reset then return to fastboot and relock it
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] kischde:
I´m quite a bit unsure, but I guess that one of us both missed something.. They already unlocked the M20 Pro and also rooted it meanwhile. It may not be fully supported but to be honest - if TWRP and root are working, I don´t mind it. It´s root what I begged for and the god of beer answered my prayers. So - CHEERS! :D
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] kischde:
Mate´s mates, how long had u guys to wait until your unlock code arrived (from FunkyHuawei)?

Today my new device arrived (BOE screen now) and I requested the code half an hour after unboxing.. And now I don´t feel like wanting to set it up twice and therefor wanted to wait until the code arrives... But I´m a man.... and need to lay my hands on it - NOW ^^
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] superior888:
Can this be done on a LYA-l29-c432 version ?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Huffy1:
Just checked my emails. Requested a code 5th Jan 1:43am

Recieved a code 6th Jan 11:20am.

So 33hrs 37mins

If your lucky you'll get your code today as I requested on a Friday night and got it Sunday morning.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
It can take up to 14 business days. Some people have gotten their code in one hour, others have needed to wait 10 days. It depends on many variables, unfortunately.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] kischde:
Well, I guess it´s Murphy again who seems to have possessed our house since a few days. No answer until now.. I´m now starting to setup my phone ^^ just to do all that again after flashing..... oh my, just great...
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Minotaur:
Sent an email to FH asking what the current wait time for an unlock code is. Received this response:

Hi,

Currently the wait time is unsure. It’s longer than normal. It may be up to 14 business days.

So yeah.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] psnijjar:
Hello [MENTION=4572798]duraaraa[/MENTION], i bought mate 20 pro from india and it have a very different model number and m stuck on 0.126 firmware and no updates available for it. I bought unlimited access of funkyhuawei. I want to unlock it's bootloader and update it to newest version available of software. Could please help me regarding this. M attaching screenshot of model number and build number.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jhs39:
I'm being realistic having owned multiple Huawei and Xiaomi phones and being an XDA member for a long time.

Nobody should buy phones from either brand if their intention is to run custom ROMs.

Feel free to look for yourself at how active the XDA development community is for the Xiaomi Mix 2, Xiaomi Mix 2S, Huawei Mate 10 Pro and Huawei P20 Pro.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sudeki300:
just installed hisuite but when i try to run it it wants to update to newer version 9.0.3.300, would this version still work or has anyone tried it, as i can't select nothing but either update or close app.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sudeki300:
got my phone into fastboot mode and started hisuite, when starting recovery it says "device not supported" would this be because its FRP locked?

sorry for double posting, didnt realize earlier post went through
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
It's because you didn't use the correct version of HiSuite and/or didn't use FHHiSuiteInstaller.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] speedyjay:
So, bootloader codes from FH are now $66 which is absolutely ridiculous! Why should i even have to pay for something that belongs to me anyway? Under EU law, when purchasing something - all documentation, information or anything to do with the product I've just purchased belongs to me. I might have to seek legal advise on this one because something seems really f'ing dodgy here....oh yeah, and $66 is an absolute joke!

3...2...1 bring on the smart comments....
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] souljasteve84:
https://global-unlocking-solutions.miiduu.com/index.php?route=account/login

I used these guys for my bootloader code, it arrived fairly quickly and I can confirm the code worked and there legit.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] speedyjay:
$22 is more reasonable....FH are just bleeding people dry. I'd be more inclined to spend $22 rather than $66 for something that's legally mine anyway...
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Huffy1:
Whats that got to do with funky Huawei though?

I feel like you should be getting on Huawei instead
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sudeki300:
i did use the correct version of Hisuite but everytime i opened it i got an update message, no option to not update just close app. i did post this in another thread but got no answer.

*edit* finally got the update done and OEM unlock selected, didnt realise that the FHHiSuiteInstaller had to be running in the background.