Huawei Honor 6 International Variant - H60-L04

[itsnotmeatall]

I still can't find this option in the settings... Pls help....

It is not present in the Indian version.

The 'Suspend Button' is there, it will give you the circular navigation menu but there does not seem to be any option to hide the default navigation menu.

 

[warea]

If one of you rooted your phone, you can probably mod the build.prop file and get the navigation bar hide option.

Either way don't forget to keep pushing Huawei and requesting for Emui3.0 upgrade for your model. Its just small effort and time required to bring these china roms to international but these guys are pretty lazy to do that. Huawei has got divisions in each country and now they have the Indian division set up since about half of last year. You have to push them and make it priority. For China market, the stable version for the L01/L02/L11/L12 model have been released, and now they are moving to releasing Emui3.0 beta test rom for Honor 3c/3x etc range. So Huawei India division should have no reason to wait longer and should bring Emui3.0 stable version to Honor 6 for Indian market soon. If they are dragging their feet and extending release to about beginning of next year, then up your request and ask them for Android Lollipop+ Emui3.0 by that time. Otherwise push for imminent release of Emui3.0.

 

[itsnotmeatall]

If one of you rooted your phone, you can probably mod the build.prop file and get the navigation bar hide option.

Either way don't forget to keep pushing Huawei and requesting for Emui3.0 upgrade for your model. Its just small effort and time required to bring these china roms to international but these guys are pretty lazy to do that. Huawei has got divisions in each country and now they have the Indian division set up since about half of last year. You have to push them and make it priority. For China market, the stable version for the L01/L02/L11/L12 model have been released, and now they are moving to releasing Emui3.0 beta test rom for Honor 3c/3x etc range. So Huawei India division should have no reason to wait longer and should bring Emui3.0 stable version to Honor 6 for Indian market soon. If they are dragging their feet and extending release to about beginning of next year, then up your request and ask them for Android Lollipop+ Emui3.0 by that time. Otherwise push for imminent release of Emui3.0.

I have sent emails to all the id's I could find, asking for 3.0 update and a roadmap for lollipop release, not one response. I even said i am willing to be a beta tester for future upgrades like they have in China, but no one seems to be monitoring these mail ids.

Btw, what is the most reliable method for rooting you have found?

 

[hidayatte]

Remote Control Apk

ITES 2.0, make your Honor 6 become universal remote control

Independent infrared remote control chip from the world's leading supplier of pre-infrared code library.
Remote control your TVs, set-top boxes, DVD, and air conditioning with accuracy up to 99%(☆may vary for certain brands)
Combined with powerful self-learning function, covering almost all infrared devices.


Step 1: Download and Install UEAIndroidServicesSDK

Step 2: Download and Install HwRemoteController

*I've got this from Malaysian Huawei Club forum

 

[itsnotmeatall]

ITES 2.0, make your Honor 6 become universal remote control

Independent infrared remote control chip from the world's leading supplier of pre-infrared code library.
Remote control your TVs, set-top boxes, DVD, and air conditioning with accuracy up to 99%(☆may vary for certain brands)
Combined with powerful self-learning function, covering almost all infrared devices.


Step 1: Download and Install UEAIndroidServicesSDK

Step 2: Download and Install HwRemoteController

*I've got this from Malaysian Huawei Club forum

Have you tried to install this? I tried it, but while the SDK installs, the HwRemoteController does not. (I have, of course, allowed install from unknown sources in settings.)

Have tried everything... always gives the message, 'App Not Installed X'

 

[hidayatte]

I've installed it with no such problem

 

[itsnotmeatall]

I can confirm that it works just fine. H60-L04 .

Strange. I suppose I will have to factory reset.

 

[itsnotmeatall]

Wait. Try rebooting or something first.

Tried all that - clearing cache, rebooting, removing updates from the preinstalled sdk, changing install location from internal to sd card and back again, etc. Nothing works.

I think it must be that I tried some other remote apps from play store, and those must have caused the problem. I'm backing up all apps, settings, messages, call logs etc on Hisuite and then I'll try and restore everything so I don't lose much by factory resetting. Let's see if it works.

 

[itsnotmeatall]

Alright, good luck.

Yup, that was the problem. It installed after factory reset

 

[VargheseJohn]

Hide Navigation Bar in H60-L04 (Needs to be Rooted)

The option to hide Navigation bar can be enabled once the phone is rooted.
To root these guides will be helpful.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=55747471#post55747471
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2800079
Also HONOR 6 Multi-Tool v1.7 tool was very usefull in installing CWM recovery.

To hide Navigation bar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEGCKcxaTY
The "hide_virtual_key" entry is already available, just update the value to "1"
Hope this helps!

Was anyone able to get Factory Recovery.img for H60-L04??

 

[itsnotmeatall]

Was anyone able to get Factory Recovery.img for H60-L04??

That is what I was waiting for, before rooting. Unless you have a stock image to go back to, it is not possible to relock bootloader, as far as I understand. And unless you relock bootloader, you cannot get Huawei's upgrades.

I have not found a stock image (or any rom of any kind) anywhere, and extracting a image from the phone itself is a little beyond my expertise. I was waiting for Huawei to issue an update, since it is relatively easier to extract an image from the update file.

 

[warea]

Reg. navigation bar hide, check if this method works: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45813491&postcount=1

 

[ibadshah47]

root

The option to hide Navigation bar can be enabled once the phone is rooted.
To root these guides will be helpful.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=55747471#post55747471
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2800079
Also HONOR 6 Multi-Tool v1.7 tool was very usefull in installing CWM recovery.

To hide Navigation bar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEGCKcxaTY
The "hide_virtual_key" entry is already available, just update the value to "1"
Hope this helps!

Was anyone able to get Factory Recovery.img for H60-L04??

how did you root the device . can u plz share the method.it will be really helpfull

 

[sunnyrullzz]

No not yet. There seems to be no mention of the Indian variant anywhere on the Chinese websites, so no roms, no CM, no custom recovery, not even any beta upgrades of EMUI available. Rooting would allow you to install Xposed, but that is about it.Rooting itself should not be a problem, but you would have to use Chinese software like Shuame or Root Genius, and I am a little apprehensive about the stuff these install on the phone.

I suppose we have to wait till an Indian (or Malaysian) developer takes interest in this device.



Amazon has a good selection, including black. I got mine from ebay, quite nice since it gives you a good grip on the phone which is otherwise somewhat slippery.

Flipkart is giving original honor 6 flipcover buy tht

 

[pradeepdamodara.91]

H60-L04 Cellular Frequency Bands?

Hi All,

I just ordered this phone on flipkart. Can't wait, I'm super excited!

But I couldn't find any listing for the exact operating frequencies of the H60-L04 model. (GSMArena only lists for L01, L02 and L12, and the ones mentioned on Flipkart seem to be a bit incomplete)
Could anyone who currently has this variant tell me what the list of all operating frequencies for our variant are?

Thanks!

 

[itsnotmeatall]

I don't think this is the case. Im pretty sure the bootloader can be locked the same way it is unlocked using adb. And huawei updates can be done OTA and with HiSuite with an unlocked bootloader AFAIK. I could be wrong.

Well this post from Virusplus is what I was basing my assumption on. On re-reading it appears you have to have stock recovery before you can get OTA updates. So you are probably right, those guys must need to relock bootloader so they can flash beta roms, which are not OTA.

Maybe @VirusPlus or @warea or someone from the other thread can shed some more light on this?

Hi All,

I just ordered this phone on flipkart. Can't wait, I'm super excited!

But I couldn't find any listing for the exact operating frequencies of the H60-L04 model. (GSMArena only lists for L01, L02 and L12, and the ones mentioned on Flipkart seem to be a bit incomplete)
Could anyone who currently has this variant tell me what the list of all operating frequencies for our variant are?

Thanks!

Check here

 

[warea]

The L04 mode is released in Malaysia too, so the specs for yours are the same as this: http://honor6.vmall.my/

Yes the Bootloader can be locked again. The procedure is mentioned on the Huawei website same place where it detailed the way to unlock it. Whether unlocking phone effects OTA update is not consistent. My phone was unlocked by the seller itself. And i did get one OTA update during my time of usage. But again some might receive and some might not.

Its not an issue though, because you can always "local update" it by either downloading the whole rom that is usually made officially available for download, or by one of you guys saving the OTA update and you can also just use that saved file to local update. Unlocking bootloader will not effect that. Some of them who modified their local.prop file after rooting did have a failed update, but they just overwrited that file with another unedited file, and updated with no problems.

 

[futong]

Alright. Here goes.
The rooting and unlocking method for all other models of Honor 6 work perfectly fine on L04. My L04 is unlocked and rooted now and I installed CWM and it's all working fine so far. Reply to this post if you need help or PM me.

Hi pudup, would you mind to let me know how to root L04?

 

[VargheseJohn]

how did you root the device . can u plz share the method.it will be really helpfull

The guide I referred says that to root, you need to unlock the bootloader. For this you need the unlock code.
It can be obtained by following this guide -
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2800079&page=15
Once you get the code, check out below link for steps to get the ph into fastboot mode, unlock bootloader and root.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=55747471#post55747471
Please Note that factory recovery.img is not yet available for H60-L04, so you will not be able to reflash the stock recovery once to flash cmw recovery.

The other root methods like using vroot or RootGenius didnot work for me.

VJ

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The L04 mode is released in Malaysia too, so the specs for yours are the same as this:

Yes the Bootloader can be locked again. The procedure is mentioned on the Huawei website same place where it detailed the way to unlock it. Whether unlocking phone effects OTA update is not consistent. My phone was unlocked by the seller itself. And i did get one OTA update during my time of usage. But again some might receive and some might not.

Its not an issue though, because you can always "local update" it by either downloading the whole rom that is usually made officially available for download, or by one of you guys saving the OTA update and you can also just use that saved file to local update. Unlocking bootloader will not effect that. Some of them who modified their local.prop file after rooting did have a failed update, but they just overwrited that file with another unedited file, and updated with no problems.

So will the phone be able to get OTA updates if the bootloader is unlocked and with CMW recovery? Just curious to know.

 

[warea]

Since you guys are still on Emui2.3, rooting might work without need of CWM recovery. The other models when previously on emui2.3, they rooted using root apps like vroot etc, and it worked fine, but here too first have to be unlocked anyway. Its with emui3.0 that CWM turned out to be only way to root.