[Huawei P20 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] ars_chelsea:
Hi guys :)

So recently there was some uploads to Firmware Finder of some BETA's of EMUI 9 of China models BUT please be sure to read this before you try anything with this beta sofware.

I recently, about a week ago when the BETA came out I was really excited like maybe you are but I did a mess noone on this Forum could fix literally.

DO NOT FOLLOW ANY PROCEDURE OF THIS!

Now what I did was:

1. I unlocked both FRP and bootloader of my device.

2. I flashed TWRP recovery

3. I backup my oem-info (ANE-LX1C432) and copied it to my sd card

4. I flashed the oem-info of the chinese model (ANE-AL00) which I copied to my sd card

5. I flashed the Hurupdater with all necessary files from the Firmware Finder.

6. Rebooted phone and it booted normally.

7. Setup screen did not appear and EMUI 9 took me directly to the home screen, I had no google play services of course since it's a chinese ROM, almost no system apps but gestures were present and quite smooth and fast actually. The ROM was fast.

8. Went to Settings-->System-->Developer options-->OEM unlocking was gray which I found pretty weird but then I searched Google and in China they do not have that option on Developer settings so maybe that's why it was gray.

Anyway since this option was gray I thought (stupidly) that maybe after a factory reset the option would become changeable again. It didn't. At that time the phone did a factory reset and afterwords by bootloader become "Relocked" and FRP was "locked. At that time system was unbootable no matter what you try.

Tried multiple commands via fastboot but since FRP is locked you can't do anything that change the system, even the FRP unlock code I got which I payed for (20€) did not work (Not sure why either but I think it's because since my oem-info changed the IMEI was changed randomly or something like it). I thought the command "fastboot boot twrp.img" would work right? but nope, nothing allowed.

Second thing I tried was the dload packages of course. I tried all kinds of packages. Tried the one I installed, the ANE-AL00C01 (9.0.1.100) one. Didn't work as it is the same version. Tried to downgrade for an older EMUI 9 beta package like ANE-AL00C01 (9.0.1.41) and did not work either.

Packages above ^ were from the Firmware so nothing is signed by Huawei.

Then I tried signed packages both from this ANE-AL00 model and my model ANE-LX1C432 but nothing seemed to work.

Only thing I thought of was to flash motherboard firmware which I looked deep into the FCC certification tests you can find this on Google:

https://fccid.io/QISANE-LX1/Test-Report/BLE-Test-report-3742444

Which tells us the motherboard base software version for my model is ANE-LX1 8.0.0.41(SP1C900).

But we don't have access to it of course since it's motherboard official software from Huawei, so maybe only some official Huawei Repair Center have the right tools for this.

BUT, on easy firmware you can get it for 15€. Easy firmware is trusted and they do have an unofficial tool that can flash official motherboard software.

Now before I tried it, I sent my phone to warranty. And I gotta say, I was not very confident about it. I sent it for repair on 6 of February and I said the phone couldn't boot and I installed a beta version via Hicare app (this is how I maybe thought they could believe me), by the way the eRecovery was in chinese so I said I installed a chinese official beta from Huawei from Hicare XDDDDDDDDD

Do you know what they did? It was not an official Huawei Repair Center, although I do have one in my country, it was just one authorized by Huawei, they said the phone didn't boot as well OK, but then they just replaced the whole motherboard due to a IMEI issue, flashed the base firmware from EMUI 8.

After that I payed nothing since it was on warranty, got "a new phone" pretty much, charging port is new but battery is the same I think, and learned something interesting, NEVER FLASH CHINESE OEM-INFO's !!!!!!!!

But seriously, I'm an IT Technician and I thought I had so much luck here because if they knew what I did I would have to pay for the repair and quite a lot (just the motherboard is 200€ btw) !

Altough I was quite pissed cause why the fk wouldn't they just flashed the board software again? YIKES

Anyways, I'm happy, while I had no phone I trusted my old moto g 2014 (titan) with sailfish OS 3 and I then realised how much I want a fkin Sony Xperia X or XA2 so I can have

that best OS of all time and still have those nasty android apps :D

And if you need a guide for the correct installation of EMUI 9 Chinese beta , please contact [MENTION=2344617]qouet[/MENTION] or check his thread here:

https://xdaforums.com/huawei-p20-lite/development/port-nova3e-official-rom-to-ane-lx1-t3897076

I'm not sure how is it going but too have the gapps you gotta work a bit i guess,

People like me with a P20 Lite main phone, just wait for stable versions or flash european versions without changing oem-info's please :) Don't make the mistake I did and almost buy a new phone :)

Cheers to all!

AS