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[Samsung Galaxy M31 Questions & Answers] irfanindian:
I updated in hopes CA is activated, but alas not yet. No 4G+ for us yet :(
[Samsung Galaxy M31 Questions & Answers] alextsil:
Lucky. For us (Europe) it's still in Feb 2020 and OneUI 2.0.
[Samsung Galaxy M31 Questions & Answers] anil2653:
I am feeling battery performance has gone down with this update

Anyone else feeling it?
[Samsung Galaxy M31 Questions & Answers] Badr0:
Yes, i've just updated the phone yesterday to the one ui 2.5 and i noticed that the battery performance decreased today.

Did it got better for you or it still the same ?
[Samsung Galaxy M31 Questions & Answers] anil2653:
Little improved after I added most of apps to deep sleep (which not required by me) and some in sleep mode
[Samsung Galaxy M31 Questions & Answers] Badr0:
ok great, if it's not too much to ask, can you make a screenchot of the apps put in deep sleep and sleep mode, for me to do it manually, Thanks !
[Samsung Galaxy M31 Questions & Answers] anil2653:
You can decide whichever app you want to put in deep sleep View attachment 5138843
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] mmarymm:
P30 pro suddenly i am getting message sounds every 20 minutes and nothing is there. I have disabled everything except essentials but still it goes on . Recently i installed cctv but it has its own sound. and my boy has a smart tracker watch but it doesnt have that particular notification sound . I can't see where to clear the cache if it's that. Help please its driving me nuts
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] rubiicon59:
To clear system cache:

Power off, wait a few seconds.

First press Vol Up, keep it pressed then press Power and keep them both pressed.

Once the logo appears keep Vol Up pressed and release Power.

After about 15 seconds the Recovery mode screen appears.

Select > Clear data > Wipe cache partition.

Once done select > Back > Restart.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kgonla:
First, my big thanks to Andrew Smirnov who created the PotatoNV software.

You need to download the PotatoNV:

https://github.com/mashed-potatoes/PotatoNV/releases

You need to remove back cover to short testpoint to ground, as I'm not good at electronics I used a copper wire to short the testpoint to the USB connector ground but there are many more places to connect

This instructions on how to run PotatoNV are a copy paste from a web page, I'm sorry but I don't remember what web site is:

1 Install ADB and HUAWEI USB COM drivers

2 Remove the cover from the device

3 Find where testpoint is located.

4 Turn off the device and unplug the USB cable

5 Short testpoint and iron shield on the motherboard

6 Connect device to the computer, after a couple of seconds jumper can be removed

Make sure there’s nothing on the device’s screen, if a charging animation appears go to step 4

7 Launch PotatoNV and select HUAWEI USB COM 1.0 in the device list

8 Select bootloader

Fields SN and BOARDID are optional, just leave them blank

Unlock code - this is the future bootloader code, you can change it to any string, the code must contain 16 characters

Press the Start button, if everything goes well, the phone will reboot and show following text: Your device has been unlocked.

And for root you will need to mess with Magisk Manager :)

Now we need to know what bloatware we can delete without killing the device :good:

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I add this just for people who search on xda-developers to unlock the bootloader of other devices supported by PotatoNV

Kirin 659 - Kirin 960

Tested devices:

Honor 7X	BND

Honor 8 Pro / V9	DUK

Honor 9 Lite	LLD

Honor 9	STF

Huawei Mate 9	MHA

Huawei Mate 9 Pro	LON

Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite	BAH2

Huawei MediaPad T5	AGS2

Huawei Nova 2	PIC

Huawei Nova 2i / Mate 10 Lite	RNE

Huawei Nova 2s	HWI

Huawei P Smart 2018	FIG

Huawei P10	VTR

Huawei P20 Lite / Nova 3e	ANE

Huawei P8 Lite (2017)	PRA

Huawei P9 Lite	VNS

Huawei Y9 (2018)	FLA

How to use PotatoNV:

https://github.com/mashed-potatoes/PotatoNV/wiki/How-to-use-PotatoNV
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] qwerty1669:
Thank you so much!!!!

It worked perfectly on my AGS2-L03.

You rule man!

And a big thanx to Andrew Smirnov too!!!
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] scabs:
Hi Kgonia,

This is great news and thank you for sharing!!

Works well.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kgonla:
Yes, it is easy.

1 - Turn off the tablet.

2 - Take a conductive wire, copper, alluminum or any other. If you use some wire that is rigid is easier to do it with one hand.

3 - Touch the test point with one end of the wire & the other end touch the electrical ground (Any part of the motherboard, or connector, that is in contact with negative circuit (Ground)).

I used the external part of the usb connector, in my first test I touched the metal shield just together the test point but did not work.

4 - Connect usb cable to computer and tablet, if you need more hands make the computer-tablet usb connection before ;)

5 - Now turn on the tablet, pushing the power button, while keeping the cable connected at both ends.

6 - The tablet will boot with black screen, as if it was off. If you have something on the screen you did it wrongly.

7 - Keep the cable connection for some seconds & you can remove it.

8 - Start PotatoNV.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] teokrata:
Nice work!!

If I open a bootloader and rooting the tab, can i install applications to the sd card?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kulwinder Singh:
can please someone post the root method?thank you.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] thierry beccaro:
working like a charm, thanks!
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] gp.triple:
Very good news, now waiting for twrp and some custom rom without bloatware and with multiaccount option
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] -=xXx=-:
Unlocked successfully, Thank you.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ashle:
Huawei P10Lite WAS-LX1A unlocked the bootloader... Unlocked successfully, Thank you.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mindlery:
Can someone please upload the files that actually run this thing? There's files that don't do anything at all on the github site.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] micbanand:
there are 2 links in the thread. Think you miss the one I linked here

https://github.com/mashed-potatoes/PotatoNV/releases
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mindlery:
I apologize for my ignorance. 24 hour marathon. Thanks for this. I too can confirm an unlocked bootloader on AGS2-L03.

Also can confirm a cracked screen. Oops. It was worth it. This unit works on first given boot option. Just adjust your 16 digits... AAAAAAAA11111111 ha. And it'll display lots of info. Took me two tries. But I would have been ok with 20. Beautiful tool. Will add pics in a bit.

Of course i forgot to capture the app's output. If it doesn't entirely fill up the right window with text, i would not even lift the screen to check. First attempt looked like it may have worked with output of text. 2nd try took a more satisfying amount of time topped off with a green progress bar that added to the event. To me this is an incredible achievement and... has it made the XDA headlines? Why the "bleep" not?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] sheenswizner:
Now can we expect Custom Roms on our Tablet?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] heathenlife:
Omfg this worked...

Thank you so much!
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] teokrata:
Nice work, i tried it. My problem is with drivers. What driver need for ags2-l09? For windows. Downloaded many of them, but the program cant view the tablet.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] heathenlife:
Ok, I had to download these drivers.. I used the X64

https://www.martview-forum.com/threads/huawei-usb-com-1-0-drivers.17374/

The reason that windows wouldn't see the driver is because it was unsigned. I had to reboot into advanced mode, and remove driver signing. Its risky, but this PC I am using is one I regularly format, so I am good.

I went into devices and updated the driver for the tablet (which shows as USB SER)
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] teokrata:
Yes, i saw usb ser. So i need just update that driver and will be works fine. I hope it.

Thank you very much!!
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] micbanand:
Thanks!

worked perfect on my Huawei MediaPad T5 AGS2 now on open kirins Los 16 v 5. so far working fine. havent testet sim.

can se it support mate 9 pro :)

BUT where is the point to short, on a Huawei Mate 9 Pro LON???

Found it!

http://blog.gsm-social.com/2019/05/...AlnaH7NyD6mZcUmpGRT0g26SKjK3xWbnUFzF455t0y63s

even with that help it was hard. did not help being brain fogged.

but the fun must wait for tomorrow :)
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
How is Widevine DRM after a PotatoNV unlock ?

On AGS2 C432, still L1 ?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] micbanand:
have done only a quick test.: fine in Magisk. and Netflix worked.

don't now at what quality.

edit:

did a quick test with

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ataraxianstudios.drminfo&hl=en_US

Gives the result. resolution 4K Netflix, Prime etc. :)
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ArthurTsai:
1.Read the PotatoNV software:

https://xdaforums.com/mediapad-t5/how-to/how-to-unlock-bootloader-t4141705

2.run CMD command:

adb devices

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot devices

Fastboot oem unlock code(16 character created by PotatoNV software)

3. select yes and t5 will start to unlock bootloader and do a factory reset.

4.Open adb debug in developer options

5. Allow computer debug

6.run CMD

adb devices

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot devices

fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk twrp_mate9_0.1.img(from here:https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?do=showpost&p=76362629)

fastboot reboot

* As soon as you execute the restart command,remove the USB cable and keep pressing Volume UP,so the device will boot to TWRP.This is to avoid that the device boot to OS,overwritting TWRP recovery.

7.Download magisk 20.4(20040).Zip and save the zip to MicroSD card. Insert it to your t5.

8.reboot to TWRP, go to install , select the sd card.

Find 20.4(20040).Zip and flash it .

9. Don't forget to install magisk manager.apk

10.Enjoy it ?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] heathenlife:
What ROM are you all using?

I flashed OpenKirin, but now I am not Google Play Store Certified and can't get any decent apps like Netflix.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] micbanand:
??

I used this one: EMUI 8-based Builds:

LineageOS 16.0 Build 5

Released August 14, 2020 - 631.92MB

md5 Checksum: de17e9b546855cac153b23d0ab233cee

From here https://openkirin.net/download/

just press download. it works fine, and Gapps is included

The one under changelog, is without Gapps.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] heathenlife:
Yes, thats the one I used too. It doesn't give me apps like Netflix etc. Says Play Protection "Device is not Certified", so I cannot get a lot of the apps.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] micbanand:
follow this: from step 1

https://www.technobaboy.com/2020/03/07/how-to-fix-device-is-not-play-protect-certified/
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] heathenlife:
Still doesn't work. When I'm inputting the framework I'd on the google registration page, the box turns red but it accepts what I type, but my play protect status doesn't change.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dany_007:
gg..

nice bro.. is there any video availible?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] illidan1337:
how do you open the back cover?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] gunpal5:
Hi, Did you manage to fix your issue?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] illidan1337:
I've tried to get it off... I've tried playing cards, I've tried dental floss and fishing line... I've even tried removing the Sim card holder and prying it apart from the slot with a flat piece of steel which I do not recommend...
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kgonla:
To open I used a cutter like this:

Just sticking the tip in a little enough so that I could insert the "triangle" in the photo below (bottom right) and it opened easy
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] gunpal5:
Did you get any marks or scratches while opening the back cover?

I am kind of worried to get the scratches on my mediapad t5. I just got it two months back... :eek:
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kgonla:
It is almost impossible not to leave any marks, the back cover is very tight but if you go carefully you only leave a small mark where you insert the cutter, in my case it is barely visible, you only notice a very slight scratch.

If I had to return it, I don't think they would realize I opened it.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kgonla:
Close up photo:
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] gunpal5:
Just opened it and unlocked. There're couple of steps which noobs like me would find helpful. I'll be writing a step by step noob's guide soon.

#Update

I managed to install LineageOS 16 on My Mediapad t5. but It doesn't seem to be well optimized for tablets. Plus there are many hiccups while playing Amazon prime videos. There's a problem with Audio volume. Text on menus are blurry.

I would advise not to root your device unless better ROM is available for this device. It's just don't worth it at the moment.

I don't have time to find and fix the issues with LineageOS. I'm just reverting back to stock OS, Current LineageOS experience is worse than the stock os.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kgonla:
To remove blur disable HW overlays in the dev options:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=83359491&postcount=10

To fix badly distorted sound:

Go to AudioFX app and disable it.

LineageOS is not perfect plus some apps do not like rooted devices.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] illidan1337:
ive run into another problem... i cant find the huawei usb com drivers anywhere... the best i found were the 1.0 drivers but the are outdated apparently as when i try to install them i get an error. also it seem huawei no longer hosts them officially which is kind of disgusting
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kgonla:
You can install Hisuite or the drivers only, that are inside the Hisuite:

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/hisuite/
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] borja113:
I was able to open it with only plastic triangle tool, I didn't need a cutter. Everything was fast and easy. No marks at all. PotatoNV is a great tool. Now I have custom recovery (twrp_mate9_0.1.img) and Magisk installed.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rockel:
Excuse me, maybe I'me misunderstanding some things.

I recently got this tab and I thin the specs are alright for the money.

But this EMUI OS is really terrible! I would like to root it if possible but I also read that this LineageOS is also not perfect on this tab.

The most terrible aspect of this EMUI OS for me is the resolution and not having a way to adjust it. Icons and the overal screen looks verry big. And I even can't use it practically for my Home Assisstant application because of this.

I've some topics about this. And a few of them talk about 3th party apps to adjust the screen resolution. But seems they all need root acces.

So my question. Can I use this method to unlock the bootloader, root this tab but leave the stock ROM as it is (rooted). So I can use this 3th party apps with root acces to adjust my screen resolution. Annyone anny ideas on this?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] borja113:
Yes, with this method you can unlock bootloader. After that you can install Magisk following the instructions bellow (at the bottom of the page there are specific instructions for Huawei):

https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html

With this you can have a rooted tablet with stock EMUI rom.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] d3relict:
unable to install proper usb driver

please help me out here!..

i tried several options to install the proper drivers, tried to extract them from hisuite 11, hisuite 9, none worked. got some usb drivers from hosting sites, however, i had no courage to install from untrusted sources yes.

can someone point me to a (preferably windows 10 x64) driver installer that will work with potatoNV?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kgonla:
If you have some error when installing drivers you can try these:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g1QyAIntk3mki9XKMJFG03GmSr5nKpCW/view

If drivers are correctly installed but you can't connect to T5:

Make sure you have enabled USB Debugging on T5

https://joyofandroid.com/how-to-enable-usb-debugging-on-android/
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] d3relict:
USB debugging is enabled, and i was able to access the device while turned on. however, i fail to install a driver that works for the "test mode" (?) that is required for unlocking, so potatoNV shows no available or connected device. whichever way i tried to install the driver you linked, i got an issue that windows failed to add it to the store.

my device manager shows USB SER with a yellow exclamation mark in case i start the tablet with the pin shorted.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] d3relict:
finally i managed to install the driver by disabling signature enforcement. everything went smoothly afterwards! :)

PS: thank you for the original instructions, i've been looking for a way to root this tablet for quite a while now, much appreciated!
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] d3relict:
for the life of me, i cannot pass ctsProfile check. i tried magiskhide props config, with various fingerprints, or forcing basic attestation, but nothing helped so far. did anyone have this issue and found a solution?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dulume:
Hello,

I've been painfully following this method and I can confirm that I was able to unlock my t5. I then proceeded to install magisk, which I think I have... that's the thing, I don't really know if I did it right. I patched the file and then flashed it with fastboot as recommended on the magisk website (link given above). It did it. No error message... but after reboot magisk manager's interface hasn't changed and still gives me the option of installing either the manager or magisk itself. No options to get root or anything really. I'm totally lost.

Can someone help?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] borja113:
Hello, which image did you patch ? RAMDISK.img or RECOVERY_RAMDIS.img ? You should have patched RAMDISK.img. I do not know what else can I suggest.

You may also have a look at the guide for Magisk installation on OpenKirin website, it is a bit more detailed:

https://openkirin.net/user_guide/how-to-install-magisk/
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Temaki:
After checking this thread, I couldn't find any info about data loss. Will unlocking delete the data?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] borja113:
Hello, I unlocked my bootloader. It did not factory reset my phone or erase data.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dulume:
So I found a firmware with the ramdisk.img (I don't know why the other four I downloaded didn't have it, all full versions... ), flashed it, and now it's working!

Thank you very much!
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] nutpants:
ok i have a Canadian Mediapad T5 AGS2-LO3

everything worked great EXCEPT

now every time i connect the tablet to the windows computer it will not enable mtp to see the tablets storage.

i cant turn debugging off ( i dont think it should matter but its greyed out "on")

the windows computer never finds the internal or external storage which is a little frustrating.

i switch to usb for file transfer and nothing happens ( windows makes a few usb devices found sounds for on and off)

i am able to switch usb debugging off in linux and linux will find the tablet storage.

any help?

(how bad is lineage 16 for the t5 btw?)

(p.s.s.) for anybody else asking i just flashed magiks 20.4. zip from twrp and it did everything to root
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] sfoot13:
Wow, incredible news!

If we can unlock the bootloader... Can we rebrand it? Because Chinese version was updated to Pie.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
You can with tools.

But wonder your widevine DRM: it seems to me AGS2-W09 CHN, AGS2-W09HN and AGS2-AL00HN have only widevine L3.

AGS2-AL00 is told to have widevine L1.

Because LGRPx bases from AL00x don't run on W09x devices, I guess only L09 and L03 OVS devices could be rebrand to AL00 CHN while keeping L1 status.

Widevine DRM L1 are mostly used by apps like netflix, prime, mycanal. With L3 you get no access, or no access to HD.
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] sfoot13:
Bro, can't get test point working :/

I touched that point with the shield and other points but when I connect the tablet to the pc, it stars charging :P
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Temaki:
It worked for me the first time. But then when I loaded the newest version via Huawei recovery, I lost root and bootloader got locked again.

When I tried the whole process a second time, it didn't work anymore.

Now I get:

PHONE Locked

FRP Unlock

on Fastboot & RESCUE MODE

Did anyone find a way to get root back from here?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] AceGed:
i followed all steps. shorting the test point to the motherboard plate and plugged to pc still nothing appears. all drivers installed even tried the disabling signature enforcement. nothing in target device? please help
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] niccotaglia:
how do you remove the back cover? I can't seem to find a way to get the damn thing open
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] denzelcris:
I've used a thin sheet of plastic like an X-ray film toghether with a plastic tool / guitar feather , started from the side with buttons, lots of patience to carefully crack it open, if it does not open in one corner then go around to not force the screen.

It is a pain to get it open but after almost 2 years of patience we can finally unlock the bootloader.

Awesome work!

P.S: no need to factory reset anything as the latest PotatoNV also unlocks the bootloader (you can check it by "adb reboot bootloader" and should say in red "Device is Unlocked")
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mentalinc:
Does the device have to be at a particular version or older for this to work OK?

Can I update to latest updates or will it block the bootloader unlock?

And once unlocked, can it be OTA updated to the latest version safely or best to go to lineage?
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrNice:
Hi there,

One has to use the PotatoNV software to unlock the bootloader.

Unfortunately, this program is for windows OS.

Is there a Linux version?

I tried to use it with WINE but it's not working.

Any help welcome
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zentico:
I want to report how easy it is to crack the screen on the MediaPad M5 (CMR-W09) while attempting to get to the testpoint. I was using a thin metal cutter to get a foothold, as the plastic guitar picks were not making a dent. I'm now looking forward to using PotatoNV when I get a $14 replacement screen I just ordered from Aliexpress (takes ~2 months to arrive from China to Costa Rica). For the time being, I will continue to use the tablet with a cracked screen and locked bootloader :(

View attachment 5176855
[Huawei MediaPad T5 Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
14$ screen are just glass without display.

It need skill and tools to un glue then glue the old display on new glass.

I did order myself a glass+display and I successfully switched replacement.

In my case it was the display which was broken and not the glass:

You should not slipped a plastic tool or xray paper more than 2mm, or display under the glass will get damaged.